Capitalists Against Markets The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden

Name: Capitalists Against Markets The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden
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ISBN: 9780195142976

ISBN-10: 0195142977

ISBN-13: 9780195142976

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter A. Swenson

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Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Capitalists Against Markets makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized extremes of welfare, the US and Sweden, Peter Swenson shows that employer interests played a role in welfare state development in both countries. This broad-ranging comparative analysis begins with theory about employer interests under varying economic and institutional conditions, especially in labor markets shaped to…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 9.37" wide x 6.10" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Capitalists Against Markets


Preface


A Note on Sources


Abbreviations



History and Theory



A Historicalpuzzle



Solidarity, Segmentation, and Market Control



Labor Markets



The Origins of Americansegmentalism



Swedish Solidarism in Themaking



The Social Democraticbreakthrough



Behind Swedish Wageequality



The United States in Comparison



Solidarism and Intersectoral Control in the United States



Welfare States



The New Deal for Market Security



Whose Business Were the New Dealers Minding?



From Solidarism to Social Democracy



Expanding the Solidaristic Welfare State



Conclusion: the 1950s to the 1990s



Legacies and Transformations


Notes


Index